Said by: He's two hometown couplets in Tang Dynasty.
Original text:
Young people leave home, old people return, and the local accent has not changed.
When children meet strangers, they will smile and ask where the guests are from.
Translation:
I left my hometown when I was young and didn't come back until my twilight years. Although my local accent hasn't changed, my hair on my sideburns has become sparse. None of the children knew me when they saw me. They asked with a smile, where did this guest come from?
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Creative background:
He, in the third year of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty (744), resigned at the age of 86 and lived in seclusion in his hometown of Yongxing (now Xiaoshan, Hangzhou, Zhejiang). It has been more than fifty years since he left his hometown. Life is easy to get old, but things change. He wrote this group of poems because of his infinite feelings in his heart.
As far as the whole poem is concerned, one or two sentences are mediocre, while three or four sentences are like twists and turns, with no boundary. The beauty of the last two sentences lies in the powder on the back, which is seamless: although mourning is written, it is expressed in a happy scene; Although I wrote about myself, it was turned out from the side of the child.
The scene where children ask questions is full of life interest. Even if the reader is not infected by the poet's long-term feelings of hurting the elderly, he can't help but be moved by this interesting life scene.